Around the world

Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class political representation.

Profits from destruction

The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.

The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe.

MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners – solidarity still needed

Statement on Woolwich killing

After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the left say?

Protests needed via embassies

Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year

An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass working peoples’ defence committees!

Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike

Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background of deep divisions in society and the regime.

15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies

How can a state be realised?

The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial power.

On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.

Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters and young people

Time for a new mass workers’ party

Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots

The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass Junction.

Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved

’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.

Sosyalist hareket üyesi 3 Pakistanlı Quetta’da mezhepçi çatışmada katledildi.

The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state, Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.

It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the […]

Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides…

Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh

DSM comrades arrested and detained

Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures

Socialist policies needed

SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles against austerity

"Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s hidden war" by Frances Harrison

Hundreds of people protested outside London’s Houses of Parliament on 14 April to demand that caste oppression in Britain be outlawed.

A surprisingly devastating critique of the ANC’s failure to ensure ‘a better life for all’; BBC2 April 24th and online

Socialist polices needed to resolve crisis in the interests of majority

Following the launch of the WASP the work is ongoing to, on the one hand, complete the formal registration of the party and, on the other, sink its roots and establish its structures across South […]

Unprecedented stimulus package – a desperate gamble

Workers must take urgent steps to defeat capitalism and the right-wing.

The Troika’s bail-out package is an economic and social disaster for the people of Cyprus.

University of Ibadan (UI): End victimisation of student activists! – Call for protest letters and solidarity

Paul Murphy speaks out as European Parliament debates Human Rights

Lively meeting of party members and supporters elects Lagos state executive

On 13 March, seven young men were executed in Saudi Arabia by firing squad.

Appeal for protest letters and solidarity

A socialist perspective on fighting women’s oppression

Peter Taaffe was invited on 10 April to give a series of interviews to BBC Radio local stations on whether there should be protests at Thatcher’s funeral.

Millions have been waiting for this day, 8 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments’ policies wrought on working class communities in the 1980s – and is […]